On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:17:15 +0000 Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/21/2011 10:45 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: > > On 21.12.2011 18:52, Andrew Haley wrote: > >> There really is very little difference between the com.sun.* > >> classes in OpenJDK and the proprietary JDK, as far as I know. Of > >> course, I haven't really checked, but... ;-) > > > > So, what is the root cause of (infrequent, but persistent) alarms > > about incompatibility between OpenJDK and proprietary JDK? > > To know for certain I'd have to trawl all the bug reports, but they > seem to boil down to web plugin incompatibilities and assuming a > particular layout of the installation. With regard to the plugin, > it's much more compatible now, but we still have occasional problems > with proprietary applications that make incorrect assumptions. It's > particularly difficult with banks that have applications we can't even > try. Oh, and we do have bugs sometimes. ;-) At $WORKPLACE I use a Java app (via javaws) - EMC NetWorker Management Console - that won't work with OpenJDK (it pops up a username/password window as expected but doesn't then pop up the main app window once the username+password have been entered), whilst it does work with Sun/Oracle java 6 and 7. I would much rather use OpenJDK but I haven't a clue how to track down what the problem is, knowing next to nothing about java. Paul. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
